As a retired scientist/engineer, I have a life-long love
affair with robotics and control devices. I now pursure it
as a hobby and small time money maker.
Yes I have worked with VEX robotics and have built sever
different models based on their standard chassis. I am not
really interested in competition (I had enough of that
during my years of being employed in a dog-eat-dog world of
staying one step ahead of the competition).

Recent blog entries by jc38654

Wow ! First blog entry and its about a real pain-in-the-
butt problem.
I have a VEX microcontroller and it just stopped working
one day. That is it just stopped working in the R/C mode.
That's right, just when you try to control the bot in R/C
it will not work. I can program a routine in easyC and the
controller works just as it should. It runs through the
entire routine and.... oh well you get my drift.
The head engineer/programer/owner ?, or whatever he was/is
said, and I quote, "VEX microconrollers NEVER fail!".
I was told to try and reload factory default firmware,
master code and user code. I tried this but to no avail.
As I am fairly new to modern microcontrollers (that's right
I am an old man) I was wondering if anyone in this fine
community has had a similar problem or anyone who might
have a ready answer to what I believe to be a uController
failure.
Thanks a bunch-JC